... . Columbian cartel efforts to export cocaine to the United States would not have been so successful without his criminal genius. Escobar life of crime started early on. James Adams, a historian and author of "Medellin's New Generation,"" notes that by the time Escobar was 20 years-old, he was already a powerful gangster and accomplished car thief that had developed the a reputation as "a young ... to smuggle cocaine into the United States (Bowden 47). Angel Rabasa, political analyst and author of Colombian Labyrinth: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency and Its Implications For Regional St...

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